Reinsurance News

BILTIR & ABI sign MoU to boost global reinsurance industry

Bermuda International Long Term Insurers and Reinsurers (BILTIR) and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance collaboration by sharing information and insights on critical industry issues...

Posted: Jun 17, 2025

QBE appoints Henrik Larsen as Nordics General Manager

Commercial insurer QBE has announced the appointment of Henrik Larsen as General Manager for the Nordics, effective 23rd June 2025. Based in Copenhagen, Larsen will lead QBE’s team across Denmark and Sweden to strengthen the company’s market posit...

Posted: Jun 17, 2025

Kin secures $1.4bn Florida reinsurance coverage at June 1 amid market expansion

Kin Insurance has revealed that the reciprocal exchanges it manages, Kin Interinsurance Network and Kin Interinsurance Nexus Exchange, have completed their reinsurance programs for the period of June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2026. For Florida, Kin...

Posted: Jun 17, 2025

Leandros Kotsakis to succeed Kjell-Åke Augustsson as Head of Skuld Piraeus

Global marine insurer Skuld has announced that Kjell-Åke Augustsson will retire as Senior Vice President, Head of Skuld Piraeus, on 28th February 2026, with Leandros Kotsakis set to assume leadership of the Piraeus office from 1st March 2026. Augu...

Posted: Jun 17, 2025

Cowbell adds Kirsten Maley as Director of Claims, UK

Cowbell, a cyber insurer focused on small to medium-sized enterprises and the middle market, has appointed Kirsten Maley into a newly created role of Director of Claims, UK, aligning with the insurers commitment to scale its presence in a growing...

Posted: Jun 17, 2025

Victor Insurance reveals global extended warranty services and appoints new MD

Victor Insurance, a managing general underwriter, has introduced Victor Extended Warranty—a new international service offering that supports insurers and reinsurers with underwriting solutions for extended warranty programmes. This initiative cove...

Posted: Jun 17, 2025

Athene names Grant Kvalheim as CEO and Jim Belardi as Executive Chairman

The Board of Directors of Athene, a retirement services company and subsidiary of Apollo Global Management, Inc., has appointed Grant Kvalheim as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective July 1st, 2025, while Co-founder Jim Belardi was named Execu...

Posted: Jun 17, 2025

Taiwan’s non-life insurance premiums rose 10.5% in 2024: AM Best

Taiwan’s domestic non-life insurance premiums continued to rise in 2024, increasing by 10.5% to TWD 278.5 billion (USD 9.2 billion), according to a recent report by AM Best. All of AM Best’s rated entities recorded premium growth during the year,...

Posted: Jun 17, 2025

US insurers plan to more than double AI investments over the next 3-5 years, according to Wipro

Wipro Limited, a provider of AI-powered technology services and consulting, has released a report which shows that AI spending is set to grow significantly within insurers’ IT budgets. The study, “The AI Advantage: Building Tomorrow’s Insura...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

Blue Marble adds Guy Carpenter’s Dean Klisura to Board of Directors

Climate insurer Blue Marble has announced the addition of reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Dean Klisura, to its Board of Directors, representing Marsh McLennan. In the role, Klisura succeeds Alex Mocz...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

CFC names Markel’s Nick Line as CUO

CFC, a specialist insurance provider focused on emerging risks and cyber, has named Nick Line as Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO). He will join the insurer in 2026, after spending 28 years at Markel where he most recently held the role of CUO sinc...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

Strong performance at Lockton Re helps lift group revenue to $4bn

Lockton Re, the reinsurance arm of the independent insurance brokerage, achieved 29% revenue growth in the fiscal year ending April 30, 2025. According to the firm, in 2024, the business experienced extensive growth, having established a global fo...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

Air India plane crash to harden aviation reinsurance market: GlobalData

The fatal Air India plane crash on June 12, 2025, is expected to harden the aviation reinsurance market, with reinsurers likely to reassess risks related to wide-body aircraft, adjust pricing models, and impose stricter terms, according to GlobalD...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

Moody’s releases Version 25 of North Atlantic Hurricane Models for insurance applications

Moody’s, a provider of risk modelling and analytics for the financial and insurance sectors, announced that Version 25 of its RMS North Atlantic Hurricane Models has been approved by the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

Himanshu Garg named Head of New Business Initiatives, Everest Re

Himanshu Garg has been promoted to Head of New Business Initiatives at Everest Reinsurance. Everest stated that Garg joined the firm in 2018 and has consistently demonstrated deep industry expertise, strategic thinking, and a strong track record o...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

UK financial institutions set sights on growth as Lloyds highlights sector’s investment potential

UK commercial banking group Lloyds has highlighted the growing role financial institutions could play in supporting the country’s long-term development, as firms prepare to expand and invest across key areas such as AI, digital infrastructure, and...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

Hiscox appoints Harriet Hanna as COO of Lloyd’s managing agent HSL

Specialist global insurer Hiscox has appointed Harriet Hanna as Chief Operating Officer of Hiscox Syndicates Ltd (HSL), the Lloyd’s of London managing agent that underwrites capacity for Hiscox’s business units, including Hiscox London Market. Acc...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

Marsh launches €1bn insurance facility for data centre construction projects

Marsh, an insurance broker, risk advisor and business of Marsh McLennan, has launched Nimbus, its new insurance facility providing clients with comprehensive cover for the construction of large-scale data centres across the UK and Europe. Nimbus,...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

Howden Re and UCL School of Management receive £200k for AI project targeting reinsurance processes

Howden Re, the reinsurance and advisory division of Howden, and the UCL School of Management have been awarded £200,000 in government funding through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), and the project is co-funded by Innovate UK and Howden Re...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

Gallagher Re reveals leaked data as a strong predictor of cyber insurance claims

Reinsurance company Gallagher Re, through the expertise of its authors James Poynter, William Gildea, Mohit Motwani, and their Cyber Analytics team, presents a comprehensive analysis of how technographic data can be leveraged to enhance underwriti...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

Aon promotes Rieth to Global Cyber Leader, Commercial Risk Solutions

Aon has announced the promotion of Brent Rieth to the role of Global Cyber Leader within Commercial Risk Solutions. Rieth, currently head of Cyber Solutions, North America, will now lead Aon’s global cyber strategy, overseeing growth, innovation,...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

Lockton names Claughton as National Manager for FI and Moens as Client Manager, Australia

Lockton, a privately held insurance brokerage, has strengthened its Professional and Executive Risk team with the appointments of Craig Claughton as National Manager – Financial Institutions (FI), based in Queensland and Dennis Moens as Client Man...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

ICIEC & CAGEX renew reinsurance alliance to further OIC trade growth

The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) has renewed its reinsurance treaty arrangement with the Compagnie Algérienne d’Assurance et de Garantie des Exportations (CAGEX) for the 2025 underwriting year. ICIE...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

ICISA elects Hannover Re’s Müller as President and Chubb’s Buckley as VP

The International Credit Insurance & Surety Association (ICISA) has announced the election of large European reinsurer Hannover Re’s Jan Müller as President and US insurer Chubb’s Dekker Buckley as Vice-President (VP). In a recent post, ICISA...

Posted: Jun 16, 2025

US home insurance becoming increasingly unaffordable: IRC

The average cost of home insurance in the US has increased faster than inflation over the past 20 years, driven by natural disasters, higher repair costs, supply chain disruptions, and population shifts into high-risk areas, according to the Insur...

Posted: Jun 13, 2025